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Mother's haste to get help backfired
Two young brothers killed in a house fire were left trapped when their mother ran to get help and the front door slammed behind her, a witness said.
- Agencies
- Published: 00:43 October 7, 2008
London: Two young brothers killed in a house fire were left trapped when their mother ran to get help and the front door slammed behind her, a witness said.
Denise Goldsmith wept as she visited the scene on Sunday to lay flowers and had to be restrained by her family from entering the house where her sons - seven-year-old Lewis and five-year-old Taylor Jenkins - died on Saturday.
"She had come outside when the fire started to get help, but the front door had slammed behind her and she couldn't get back in," Jason Maynard, 35, told the Daily Mail.
Maynard, who was at his mother's house nearby, said Denise was screaming for someone to get the children out of the house. He said a neighbour tried to break down the front door while he and his brother Gary, 37, tried in vain to get through the back door.
"The front door is one of those you can only open from the inside, unless you have a key."
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